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EAPG Advanced Writing Seminar

EAPG Advanced Writing Seminar

Part 1: Topics in Graduate Composition

EAPG Advanced Writing Seminar is specifically designed to meet the needs of non-native English speaking graduate students and other members of the university community and will introduce students to several core aspects of academic/scholarly writing. 

Specifically, in part 1, the following rhetorical strategies and composition skills will be addressed – while incorporating specific organizational patterns and writing conventions commonly found in academic writing: appropriate integration of academic and discipline specific vocabulary, increasing coherence and cohesion of written ideas, summarizing, defining, synthesizing, comparing/contrasting, and further development of analytical arguments.

Part 2: Advanced Topics in Graduate Composition

Part 2 builds upon the skills and strategies presented in part 1 to meet the advanced needs of non-native English speaking graduate students and other members of the university community and will introduce students to several core aspects of dissertation, thesis, and Proposal Writing.

Part 2 of this Seminar focuses on the preparation of dissertation, thesis, research proposals, and the application of self-editing skills towards thesis and dissertation chapters. Generally, considerable attention is given in class to the rhetorical and grammatical analysis of sample thesis and dissertation chapters or proposals.

Course prerequisite:  admission to a graduate program or successful completion of EAPP Tier 3. The seminar is also open to visiting scholars & researchers and post doctoral fellows.
*It is strongly recommended that seminar participants have a solid foundation of English grammar.

Major Assignments:  TBA by course instructor(s)

Events

March 2010
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